Who lives in the reddest area?

[hfojvt]

or the bluest area?

My state has been solid red forever. This year Trump got 56% of the vote. My county, despite being in the KC metro area, is worse than the state. Trump won 59-38% of 35,000 votes. That was even an improvement on 2016 when he won 58-33%

2008 was a great year for Democrats. Obama hired a field organizer for our county. So McCain only won by 55-43% of 30,000 votes.

The county seems to be getting redder though as back in 2000 Bush only won by 54-42 of 22,000 votes compared to the state which voted 58-37.

This may be a function of our population growth as the southern part of the county has grown with Kansas Citians moving into it. However, we also lost the state legislative seat which has been Democratic since before I moved here in 2002, but we also always had very conservative Democrats who got a lot of Republican votes (generally they have been pro gun and anti-choice). The incumbent did not lose though, he actually ran for State Senator and defeated the semi-incumbent Republican.

You can find your county percentages here (if not at your County Clerk office) https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html

[onecaliberal]

1. I live in a state that has almost no Republican Party but in my district we manage to keep electing

Devin Nunes. It’s really effing depressing some days.

[TwilightZone]

4. Eh, not sure I'd agree.

Large swaths of inland and northern CA have been conservative for a very long time. They're heavily outnumbered by blue on and near the coasts, of course, but they're pretty entrenched in eight or so districts. The vast majority are D, but I'm not sure I'd characterize the GOP there as nearly nonexistent.

[hfojvt]

10. yeah I recently looked at the numbers

California had more Trump voters than the entire population of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North and South Dakota combined.

[onecaliberal]

12. Our government has a supermajority dem.

The California Republican Party is a joke.

[hfojvt]

15. Well, they lost the state by 64-33.5

but it is just that 33.5% of California is still 5.3 million people.

and Shasta, Calaveras, and Tuolumne counties (etc.) are redder than where I live.

[onecaliberal]

20. They're not even close the counting all the votes here. They accepted ballots

Until today. So whatever numbers you looked at are a snapshot. Doesn’t tell us much.

All of those places you named are small communities. A lot smaller than where I am.

[hfojvt]

21. they are not small by midwest standards.

Shasta County would be the 4th largest county in Kansas, the largest in South Dakota. To me, Redding is a large city. Much larger than a place where I would want to live.

[onecaliberal]

22. And therein lies the problem. I'm tired of being ruled by people

That consistently votes against humanity.

[TwilightZone]

2. Western Nebraska is 80-90% red.

That's why Trump could win the state easily, yet lose the highly-populated District 2 to Biden.

[hfojvt]

16. it is

but much like western Kansas, almost nobody lives there. 729 votes in Sioux county. 1,195 in Garden County, and that county might be bigger than Rhode Island.

[calguy]

3. Arkansas

Moved here from California 15 years ago. Love living here. The people are some of the nicest folks I've ever known.
But politically, most of them are as dumb as a rock.

[brewens]

5. North central Idaho, but not as red as you might think in the overall area. Go very far north or

south and it get worse.

[hfojvt]

11. but Latah county voted for Biden

Of course, you would expect a lot of commies in Moscow (rimshot)

[vercetti2021]

6. Randall county

Amarillo, TX. 20k of 200k voted for Biden.

50k voted for shithead.

Potter is a little better. But still red. Amarillo is slowly trending into a small blue zone from population growth. But it's got a long ways to go. Sadly the surrounding area is one of the most conservative voting areas in America

[Ferrets are Cool]

7. Alabama. They just elected a Football Coach who has quit every job he's ever had

instead of a completely competent incumbent Democratic Senator.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. My county went 70.5% for Biden. No surprise.

[handmade34]

9. 2nd after DC

oh wait... they're not a state... darn, they should be!!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

13. I'm in Santa Fe.

It's among the bluest places out there.

The down side is that the corruption here is almost entirely with the Democrats. Sigh.

[peacebuzzard]

14. thanks for this info.

great job.
I live in a very red state, was nice to compare urban vs. rural.

[evemac]

17. Boulder, Colorado 77.58% Biden!!!!!

[MuseRider]

18. I live in one of the few

counties in Kansas that is blue. About the only thing I am proud of recently is the rejection of Kobach and now the county rejecting Trump.

[hfojvt]

19. actually it used to be just Crawford, Douglas and the Dotte.

Now Crawford has gone red. Biden got crushed in Crawford. But this year Biden won in JoCo, Shawnee and even Riley!! Riley??? My perception in 2010 was that Riley was very conservative.

Something looks odd there too, because they have the same number of total votes as they did in 2008. Plus, they are very small. In spite of his victory, Biden got fewer votes there than he did here in Leavenworth County.

[MuseRider]

24. True, of course,

But we were blue this time and I am really happy about it. I rarely have paid a lot of attention to that since it has been so depressing to see it red.

[Archae]

23. I live in Sheboygan county in Wisconsin, quite red.

My local congressman is Glenn Grothmann, the guy who said "Money isn't important to women."

The most liberal area I know of in Wisconsin is the "People's Republic Of Madison."

[hfojvt]

29. Mad town, my dad's home town

still when I lived there, Tommy T was Governor for life. The only way we got rid of him was that Bush took him. But I had already moved by 1998, but not before I got to meet Tammy Baldwin in the metropolis of Hub City.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

25. Hard to tell from county results sometimes.

Yellow Springs OH is probably the most liberal community in all of Ohio, and possibly near the top for the whole country, but it's within Greene County which solidly voted for Trump.

Yellow Springs residents clearly want to keep their community small and they resist new developments, so I don't expect growing numbers for them either.

[hfojvt]

27. interesting

and my own town is less red than the county, but for Yellow Springs to be liberal seems to be of no political use. I mean, their state legislators, their elected county officials, their Governor, their Congressperson would be just as Republican. My city is at least big enough that it can often send a D or two or three to the state legislature, where they are sort of overwhelmed by Republicans, but in other ways are part of the Democratic-moderate Republican coalition which passes most bills. Or at least did until the electoral massacre of 2010, although moderate R's fought back and won some primaries in 2016.

[Fla Dem]

26. The Numbers speak for themselves. Devastating.

State of Florida


My County, St Johns


The only positive is that with the "Other" vote we are only 12,359 in the minority. But who are these 47,538 people?

[hfojvt]

28. looks like the others are Republicans

the vote total was 110,000 to 63,000 so over 20% didn't vote. 75% though is impressively high turnout.

[LeftInTX]

30. I live in a blue county, but my precinct is red

It's really disgusting because all other precincts surrounding it are blue and this place is red. Trump flags, Trump parades, Trump signs...my next door neighbor had 13 Trump signs. The next door neighbor had "Latinos for Trump" and numerous other GOP signs.

[hfojvt]

31. hopefully a precinct makes little difference

if it is not enough to sway a state legislative race. You still should have legislators who are Democrats and perhaps county officials too. But then in a red state, the legislature and governor, US senators and congress people are probably all Republicans. Many Republicans though, are expecting Texas to fall in the next decade, if not by 2024.

I limit my signs. If I have a yard full of Democratic signs that just shows me to be a Democrat. It has, it seems to me, then, less impact for each of the candidates. Given the area where I live, a Biden sign might hurt the other candidates. I took heart when I saw a neighbor who had 2 Trump signs and next to that a sign for the Democratic State Senator. He probably needed crossover votes to win.

Having 13 signs looks bizarre to me, might as well have a sign that says "fanatics for Trump" or "lunatics for Trump".

[LeftInTX]

32. Yes, my elected officials are all Democratic, except statewide and State Board of Education.

My precinct is at the very southern end of that State Board of Education District, the adjoining district is Democratic. Otherwise, my congressional, state senate, state rep and county commissioner are all Democratic.

My nextdoor neighbor is a piece of work. She's a nosy busy body.

[NameAlreadyTaken]

33. It's 82% Trump in Esmeralda County, Nevada

[mnhtnbb]

34. I currently live in a blue NC county

that went 62 % Biden to 36 % Trump. I used to live in a blue NC county that went 75%Biden to 24% Trump. And when my house is finished being built--in December, I hope--I will be moving to an NC county that went 80% Biden to 18% Trump.

The entire area of Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill is overwhelmingly liberal and well educated. I really thought that NC was going for Biden in this election. Alas, there are a lot of less populated, less well educated counties in NC that are just as red as these three are blue. We had a huge turnout, too, at 75.3% of registered voters cast a ballot in the state.